Navy’s Top Admiral Wants To Tailor Warship Deployments To Specific Missions

While today’s surface Navy puts major emphasis on carrier strike group and expeditionary strike group deployments, driven by the resource realities and the global threat environment, the current Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) wants to take a far more flexible and tailored approach to sending his vessels on cruise. Speaking to reporters at the Surface Navy Association’s (SNA) annual conference near Washington, D.C., CNO Adm. Daryl Caudle said global mission demands made delivery of the full carrier strike group package to all the parts of globe where combatant commanders signaled a need “just not possible.” “So the idea is, what’s necessary and sufficient to actually handle the thing that you need some within your [area of responsibility] as a combatant commander and as a Navy component co